Well #Zigbee2mqtt is a lost cause. No matter version I install, it refuses to communicate with my devices. It sometimes saw one, but it failed more than it succeeded.
But I finally managed to get #HomeAssistant to see the #Zigbee USB stick and complete the install. And now I’m setting up all my devices again but this time directly in hass.
@asjmcguire No it was plugged directly into my NUC. I was afraid the solar flare last night had cooked my conbee.
But I believe I managed to isolate it to probably user error. I must have messed up somewhere while trying to troubleshoot the problem.
In the end I was barely even able to get Zigbee2mqtt to communicate with the mqtt broker, within the same network and without firewalls. Even on a brand new virtual machine.
@madjo it's always recommended to Have Thread and Zigbee stuff on a USB extension to keep it away from the USB port - because USB3 causes a LOT of interference on the 2.4GHz band. It's a known problem.
Thing is, I hadn't moved the NUC, and it had been working without any problems for months since I installed it, until this morning when suddenly it barely registered anything.
All I had done last night was install software on my NUC, and after I had finished that all was still working, all buttons still worked, and my lights went out when they were supposed to.
@gwww@asjmcguire I appreciate the links, and I'm sure it was a contributing factor, and I will act accordingly by finding a decent USB Extension cable.
But it doesn't explain why it's again working, just not with zigbee2mqtt.
@madjo@gwww for what it's worth I had a Conbee2 stick for like 3 years plugged into a Pi. Never had a problem with my Zigbee network. Then one day suddenly - everything was slow to respond and there were timeouts. I got a Sonoff Zigbee stick - all started working again. Very suspicious about the Conbee2 lifespan.
Perfectly fine for two years and then dying/dead. If I kept it on the ZHA network id have a broken but occasionally functioning light or two. ZigBee2MQTT just couldnt do anything at all with it.
Bought a sonoff dongle and have been happy on Z2M since. Safe in the knowledge that the network keys are in the config and a new dongle wouldn't mean I'd have to rebuild it all again.
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